A vibrant U.S. airline industry is critical to U.S. economic growth and job creation, but the aviation industry is currently subjected to 17 different federally imposed taxes. Today, U.S. airline passengers pay $63 in federal taxes on a typical $300 domestic roundtrip ticket, or 21% of the ticket price. That amount will increase in July when the TSA passenger security tax more than doubles from $2.50 to $5.60 per one-way trip, costing customers more than $1 billion annually. What's more, as part of the president's 2015 budget proposal, the taxes paid on that $300 ticket would jump to $77 or 26% of the total ticket price. Join us in telling Washington to stop going hog wild and that you'll support more taxes when pigs fly!
